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Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.

If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals.

Wherever you are or whatever your job, don't be confused or diverted by false priorities. We have only one mission to perform-that is to fight and win. And, we must do it better than anyone else in the world.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse, and the least courageous people thrive in the Church today.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

Even child abuse specialists do not routinely screen for domestic violence. This shows how much more education we need to do, even among experts, to understand the known links between violence of the child and the parent.

Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.

Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing

Models are to be used, not believed.